The woman who chases the freedom of the soul

Romaine 2022-12-01 21:32:32

Appreciating a good movie seriously is often difficult, and that difficulty is like solving a math problem. From the moment the movie started playing, I have been making various attempts, trying to solve the problem from different angles, cutting in from different directions, until at the end of the movie, I found my most satisfactory answer. Of course, this answer carries my own imprint. My life experience, social experience, emotional experience, temperament style, etc. may be factors that affect it. Such an answer may not satisfy others, or even satisfy myself in a few years, but at this moment, I really have this kind of resonance and feeling with this film in my heart. It cannot be ignored, it cannot be misinterpreted, it cannot even be whitewashed. Watching "The French Lieutenant's Woman" is as challenging as Meryl Streep's "Sophie's Choice", but the difficulty doesn't stop me, and I love them , and the shock they bring to my heart.

The French Lieutenant's Woman is the name given to a woman in black who often stares at the sea in the coastal town of Lyme in southern England. The woman in black is named Sarah. There is a rumor in Lyme Town that Sarah once fell in love with a French lieutenant, but she was ruthlessly abandoned by him after she lost her life. She could not get rid of her infatuation with him, so she yearned for the sea every day and waited for him to come back. get together. The people around her were very contemptuous of her, thinking that she was willing to fall, regardless of shame. But the reality is not like this, Sarah was born poor, educated, and loves to paint, but in the closed town of Lyme, her social status does not allow her to display her artistic talents, and does not allow her to have love and thinking freedom of. Although she fell in love with the French lieutenant, she resolutely gave up on the other party after seeing through the false face of the other party's romance and hypocrisy. There are only two paths in front of her, either marry a farmer and have children, or live in a big city and become a prostitute. Sarah resists these two arrangements of fate, but she doesn't know where the future is going. She is lonely and silent, and she has nowhere to store the excess energy in her heart. She is tangled, depressed, insomnia, and crying, often staring blankly at the sea by herself. .

And Charles, a young gentleman who came to Lyme from London to conduct a geological survey, shines into Sarah's life like a ray of sunshine. He is young, gentle, kind, compassionate, interested in her maverick and full of mystery, and more importantly, she also falls in love with her at first sight. Sara launched an invisible offensive against him as if she had caught a life-saving straw. She has a faint feeling in her heart that he can bring her change, but what kind of change it means is uncertain. Just like the beginning of a story, no one knows where to go, but she is willing to take the risk. In front of Charles' fiancée, she put a note to him, and asked him to go out for a rendezvous late at night. In the grove of Fuya, she told him what she had buried in her heart. Everything was as she expected, and he fell in love with everything. She broke up with her fiancée regardless of her reputation and ruin and the unbearable consequences of losing her status as a gentleman.

While getting the love of Charles, she also saw her sin of destroying other people's marriages. She realized that she had been carried away by jealousy and had done such a shameful thing. After Bansett's lingering night, she chose to disappeared. In London, she was turned into a street prostitute. Charles also began to search for her like a needle in a haystack. The female workers who got off work in the early morning, the prostitutes on the streets late at night, the deep alleys, the far crossings, and any possible place, he searched all over. Just three years later, when the exhausted and desperate Charles was about to give up, he received an address from her. She is working as a tutor in a good family, and has given full play to her painting ability to create.

He questioned her, why did she leave without saying goodbye three years ago?

She said, knowing that you have a fiancée, still pestering you, that should not be.

He asked angrily, why did he come back to me now?

Because I found freedom, I found my vitality. I found that I still love you. She stared at him and said word by word.

I really want to applaud conversations like this. Cheers to a truly mature Sarah. What are the hardships and hardships along the way, what is it that is diagnosed as depression by a psychiatrist and needs to be sent to a mental hospital for treatment, what is a woman who is regarded as a shameless and depraved woman by the people around you, those days of loneliness and pain are like trapped animals in a cage What is it, until you find the source of your own vitality, gain true self-esteem and self-confidence, and the great surprise of liberating your repressed soul is nothing.

After watching this film, a friend once said to me that a woman's real awakening is not from one man's arms into another man's arms, but to find something that can stimulate her vitality and give her self-esteem and self-esteem. Confidence stuff. Cheers to this statement.

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  • Montague: My guess is we will be asked to make a 'confessio delicti'.

  • Davide: Have they decided how they are going to end the movie?

    Mike: End it?

    Davide: I hear they keep changing the script.

    Mike: No, not at all. Where did you hear that?

    Davide: Well, there are two endings in the book. A happy ending and an unhappy ending, no?

    Mike: We're going for the first ending. I mean the second ending.

    Davide: Which one is that?